. . holding a book but reading the empty spaces.
God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.
What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrangement. . . and the manly and wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made of them.
Life, like war, is a series of mistakes,he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes: organize victory out of mistakes.
He in whose heart the law was, and who alone of all mankind was content to do it, His sacrifice alone can be the sacrifice all-sufficient in the Father's sight as the proper sacrifice of humanity; He who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, He alone can give the Spirit which enables us to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. He is the only High-Priest of the universe.
Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point to the fulfillment of what want, the answer to every longing--the type of perfect humanity, the Lord Jesus Christ.
It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.
If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director.
True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.
If some of our teenage thrill seekers really want to go out and get a thrill, let them go up into the Northwest and tangle with the Grizzly Bear, the Polar Bear, and the Brown Bear. They will get their kicks, and it will cleanse their souls.
False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.